VINCI - 2008 annual report

OUR PRIORITY COMMITMENTS
Commitments
Social
1/ Jobs
Promote the creation of permanent jobs
2/ Training
Set up a forward-looking jobs and skills
management
3/ Safety
Achieve a zero accident rate
4/ Equal opportunities
Promote diversity
5/ Share ownership
Promote increased employee share
ownership
6/ Civic engagement
Encourage employee initiatives
Environment
7/ Climate change
Quantify greenhouse gas emissions in
accordance with ISO standard 14064
8/ Eco-design
Implement the eco-efficiency policy,
starting with life-cycle analysis
9/ Customers-suppliers
Work together with partners in the
value chain
Research & Development
10/ Co-operation
Involve all stakeholders in the issues
of the future
11/ Applied R&D
Enhance the Group’s technological
capability
12/ Participative innovation
Encourage employee innovation
2008 results
- 26,359 people hired on unlimited-term contracts worldwide
- 10,036 people hired on unlimited-term contracts in France
- 3.1 million hours of training worldwide, i.e. an average
of 19 hours of training per employee
- VINCI’s accident frequency rate: 11.59
- VINCI’s accident severity rate: 0.64
- 7,750 hours of diversity training in Europe
- Publication of results of the diversity audit carried out in
2007; second audit undertaken by the Vigeo agency, in 40
European subsidiaries
- Formation of a body of in-house auditors to follow up the
diversity audits
- 87% of employees in France are shareholders. 8.2% of VINCI’s
capital is owned by employees
- 121 projects supported by the VINCI Foundation in Europe
- More than 150 employees engaged in volunteering of expertise
- Deployment worldwide of the Group’s environmental reporting
- Second Scope 2 quantification exercise in France
- Development of eco-comparison tools for each activity
- Launch of the ParisTech chair in the eco-design of building
complexes and infrastructure
- Continuation of training courses in purchasing and sustainable
development
- Inclusion of environmental clauses in VINCI framework contracts
- Proposal of environmental alternatives when responding to
calls for tenders
- Creation of The City Factory, a think-tank dedicated to reflecting
on tomorrow’s city together with representatives from the
worlds of business, science and public administrations
- 45 research programmes under way in the subsidiaries
- 180 in-house research workers
- A global R&D budget of more than €30 million
- Launch of the 5th VINCI Innovation Awards Competition
- Promote technological innovation and encourage in-house
dissemination of innovations
2009 commitments
- Continue to create permanent jobs
- Increase the number of hours of training in
France by 10%
- Actively pursue the accident prevention
policy
- Put the management of diversity onto a
permanent footing
- Promote employee share ownership among
lower-paid employees: new scale of employer
contributions for 2009 with the employer
exceptionally doubling this contribution for the
first 300 euros invested
- Develop the sponsorship tools
- Continue to deploy employee initiatives in
Europe and elsewhere
- Apply this approach systematically in order
to limit reducible sources of emissions
- Step up exchanges of information and consultation
with all parties involved in the value chain
- Develop research and teaching activities in the
areas of eco-neighbourhoods, biodiversity, materials,
rehabilitation of built structures and mobility
- Design and implement the second version
of the training course “Integrating sustainable
development into the purchasing function”
- Design and implement a training course
on “Integrating sustainable development in
proposals”
- Organise City Factory seminars in the French
regions and abroad
- Increased emphasis on joint programmes
(involving more than one business line)
- Continue to disseminate innovations emerging
from Innovation Awards Competitions
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